Egyptian presidential candidate, Hazim Abu Isma`il

An Egyptian jurist sent me this:  "Here's more from Egyptian presidential candidate Hazem AbuIsmail opining on nutmeg in his days as a televangelist. It is a very weird phenomenon that the Salafi luminaries (if one can combine these two oxymoronic terms) in Egypt's political scene are all televangelists. AbuIsmail for example has no formal Azhari or Islamist training, though he claims to be widely read in the Islamic sources, and it is even hard to pin him down as a member of a political organization. His 2005 parliamentary run in my district was an Ikhwan-managed and backed campaign (he ran formally as an independent like all MB candidates at that time), yet he denies today that he was a member of the Ikhwan. Today, he is not formally part of any of the Salafi parties.  Of course, his masterpiece remains spreading the "hypothesis" that PEPSI = "pay every penny to save israel," claiming that the company's founder was a freemason, and that its founding was somehow possibly related to the Basel Zionist congress. I really don't know what his beef with the company is.  By the way, I think this guy has a strong chance to make it to the second round of Egypt's presidential race, as things stand now. The elections will be conducted in two stages with the second stage being a run-off between the two highest-scoring candidates in the first round. As usual, appreciate anonymity if you find any of this interesting."